Department of History, (M/C 198)
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109
Phone: (312) 996-5471 or 996-3141 Fax: (312) 996-6377 Email:GDanzer@uic.edu
Education:
B.S. (Elementary and Secondary Education), Concordia College, Illinois, 1959
M.A. (History), Northwestern University, 1961
Ph.D. (History), Northwestern University, 1967
Teaching Experience:
1961-1962 The Lutheran School of Saint Luke, Itasca, Illinois, teacher and acting principal.
1962-1963 Luther High School North, Chicago, Illinois, instructor in social studies.
1967- University of Illinois at Chicago, currently Professor of History and Director of the M.A. Program for Teachers of History.
1992-1994 Chair, Council for Effective Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Publications (selected):
Books:
America! America! 4th edition (Glenview: Scott, Foresman, 1987)
with L. JoAnne Buggey, Charles Mitsakos, and C. Frederick Risinger.
Land and People: A World Geography 2nd edition (Glenview: Scott,
Foresman, 1984) with Albert J. Larson.
Law in American History (Glenview: Scott, Foresman, 1983) with
James Lengel.
People, Space and Time: An Introduction to Community History For
Schools (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America for the Chicago
Metro History Fair, 1986) with Lawrence W. McBride.
Public Places: Exploring Their History (Nashville, Tennessee:
American Association for State and Local History, 1987).
World Geography: A Physical and Cultural Study (Glenview: Scott,
Foresman, 1989) with Harm J. de Blij, Roger A. Hart, and Dorothy W. Drummond.
An Atlas of World History (London: Calman and King, 2000), distributed
in the U.S. by Borders Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Educational Materials:
Discovering History through Maps and Views (Glenview: Scott,
Foresman, 1989), viii, 182 pp. Awarded the James Harvey Robinson Prize
by the American Historical Association.
Discovering American History Through Maps and Views (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), xiv, 280 pp. A revised and expanded version of the above.
Discovering Western Civilization Through Maps and Views (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), x, 200 pp. With David Buisseret.
Discovering World History Through Maps and Views (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Second edition, 1996, x, 216 pp.
The Americans (Evanston: McDougal Littell, 1998) with J. Jorge Klor de Alva, Louis E. Wilson, and Nancy Woloch. Supervisory authorship.
World History: An Atlas and Study Guide (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998), 128 pp.
Articles:
"Chicago's First Maps" and "George F. Cram and the American Perception of Space" in the Chicago
Mapmakers: Essays on the Rise of the City's Map Trade, edited by Michael P. Conzen (Chicago Historical Society for the Chicago Map Society, 1984), 12-22, 32-46.
"Bird's-Eye Views of Towns and Cities" and "City Maps and Plans" in David Buisseret, ed., From Sea
Charts to Satellite Images: Interpreting North American History Through Maps (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 143-164, 165-185.
"European Cartography on the Eve of the Discoveries" a series of seven articles in Social Education, 55:5-56:3 (September, 1991 - March, 1992).
"The Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett: Cartographic and Historical Perspectives," in David Buisseret, ed., Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 144-173.
Awards and Positions:
James Harvey Robinson Prize (American Historical Association), 1987 and
1990.
Superior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 1986.
Grants and Fellowships (selected):
National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Division, "The Chicago
Neighborhood History Project," 1980-1985.
Hermon Dunlap Smith Fellowship in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library,
1989-1990.
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, "Slices
of Time: The United States Constitution in Global Perspective," 1990-1991.
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Cartographic Traditions in Western
Civilization," 1991-1992.
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Cartographic Traditions in American
History," 1995-1997.
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Cartographic Traditions in World
History," 1998-1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Teaching a Global Perspective,"
with the World History Association, 1999-2002
Professional Activities (selected):
Director, Chicago Neighborhood History Project, 1980-85.
Director, The World History Project, 1985-.
Coordinator, City in History Conference, 1970-1993.
Consulting Editor in Social Studies, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1979-1982.
Board of Editors, Social Studies, 1982- .
Board of Editors, Illinois Historical Journal, 1984-1993.
Board of Editors, History Teacaher, 1993-1998
Guest Editor, Magazine of History, 7:3 (Spring, 1993) special issue
on "Geography and History."